This week’s stories spanned regulation, adoption, market conviction, and industry shakeouts. Seven Senate Democrats rejected the latest CLARITY Act draft, while Cathie Wood doubled down on SpaceX despite its sharp stock decline.
The Bitcoin blockchain just recorded its 15th difficulty adjustment of the year, trimming mining difficulty by about 0.74% at block height 959616. Amid the year’s wild swings, the balance has clearly tilted toward difficulty cuts, with negative adjustments outnumbering increases by nearly 3 to 2.
July 26, 2026, 3:20 pmMichael Saylor’s latest bitcoin chart comes as Strategy holds 843,775 BTC, maintains a $3.225 billion cash reserve, and still has authorization to sell up to $23.53 billion of additional stock to raise capital, sharpening questions over whether the company will resume bitcoin purchases. Saylor Shares Strategy’s Crowded Bitcoin Chart Strategy Inc.
July 26, 2026, 2:31 pm
On Sunday, during the morning trading sessions, bitcoin exchanged hands for $64,466 on July 26, giving back most of a rally that had pushed the cryptocurrency above $66,900 earlier in the week. The past seven days followed a familiar pattern.
Dormant BTC activity fell to its lowest level since Q3 2022, suggesting long-term holders have slowed distribution after heavy profit-taking.
Bitcoin is trading near $64,500 this weekend, sitting between $65,000 resistance above and $62,500 support below, the two prices that will define its week. Bitcoin climbed as high as $66,990 on July 21, a one-month high, before slipping back under $65,000 and turning that former breakout line into overhead resistance.
MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel has highlighted the growing economic gap between Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence infrastructure, arguing that AI data centers can generate substantially more revenue from the same underlying power resources.
The Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) both hand down interest rate decisions next week, two days apart. Bitcoin (BTC) enters the pair of events near $64,000. Markets expect a hold in both cases. Doubt is concentrated in Washington, where about a third of pricing still favors a hike.
Bitcoin's improving profitability offers optimism, but historical trends suggest the market has yet to confirm a lasting cycle shift.
At the inaugural Energy Investors Forum (EIF) in Dallas on July 23, the AI boom looked less like a software story than an enormous energy-infrastructure buildout. This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from The Energy Mag.
Bitcoin could lower mining difficulty by roughly 16% when its next adjustment arrives around July 26, handing the machines that remain online a considerably larger expected share of the network’s rewards while doing almost nothing to resolve the expensive power contracts, debt obligations and strategic pressures pushing some of the industry’s largest…
Robert Kiyosaki warned followers about surging US national debt, now near $39.6 trillion, naming gold, Bitcoin, and Ethereum as core holdings in his personal defense strategy. The author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad” frames the choice bluntly, though skeptics question his long-standing collapse forecasts.
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